3115.01
Uniform interstate family support act definitions.

(A)
"Child" means an individual under
the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the
individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support
order directed to the parent.

(B)
"Child support order" means an order for the support of a child that provides
for monetary support, whether current or in arrears, health care, or
reimbursements, and may include related costs and fees, interest, income
withholding requirements, attorney fees, and other relief. "Child support
order" includes:

(1)
An order under which the
child has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state and
amounts for current support are required to be paid, or arrearages are owed,
under the order;

(2)
An order
under which the child has attained the age of majority under the laws of this
state but has not attained the age of majority under the laws of the issuing
state and amounts for current support are required to be paid, or arrearages
are owed, under the order.

(C)
"Duty of support" means an obligation
imposed or that may be imposed under law to provide support for a child,
spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide
support.

(D)
"Home state" means
the state in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as a parent
for at least six consecutive months immediately preceding the time of filing of
a complaint or comparable pleading for support and, if a child is less than six
months old, the state in which the child lived from birth with any of them. A
period of temporary absence of any of them is counted as part of the six-month
or other period.

(E)
"Income"
includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and
any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this
state.

(F)
"Income withholding
order" means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's payor to
withhold support from the income of the obligor.

(G)
"Initiating state" means a state from
which a proceeding is forwarded or in which a proceeding is filed for
forwarding to a responding state under sections 3115.01 to
3115.59 of the Revised Code or a
law or procedure substantially similar to those sections, the uniform
reciprocal enforcement of support act, or the revised uniform reciprocal
enforcement of support act.

(1)
An individual to whom a duty
of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order has
been issued or a judgment determining parentage has been rendered;

(2)
A state or political subdivision to which
the rights under a duty of support or support order have been assigned or which
has independent claims based on financial assistance provided to an individual
obligee;

(3)
An individual seeking
a judgment determining parentage of the individual's child.

(M)
"Obligor" means an individual,
or the estate of a decedent to which any of the following applies:

(1)
The individual or estate owes or is
alleged to owe a duty of support;

(2)
The individual is alleged but has not
been adjudicated to be a parent of a child;

(N)
"Payor" has the same meaning as in section
3121.01 of the Revised Code.

(O)
"Register" means to file a
support order or judgment determining the existence or nonexistence of a parent
and child relationship in a registering tribunal.

(P)
"Registering tribunal" means a tribunal
in which a support order is registered.

(Q)
"Responding state" means a state in which
a proceeding is filed or to which a proceeding is forwarded for filing from an
initiating state under sections 3115.01 to
3115.59 of the Revised Code or a
law or procedure substantially similar to those sections, the uniform
reciprocal enforcement of support act, or the revised uniform reciprocal
enforcement of support act.

(S)
"Revised uniform reciprocal
enforcement of support act" means the act addressing interstate enforcement of
support orders adopted in 1968 by the national conference of commissioners on
uniform state laws or any law substantially similar to the act adopted by
another state.

(T)
"Spousal
support order" means an order for the support of a spouse or former spouse that
provides for monetary support, whether current or in arrears, health care, or
reimbursements, and may include related costs and fees, interest, income
withholding requirements, attorney fees, and other relief.

(U)
"State" has the same meaning as in
section
1.59 of the
Revised Code, except that it also includes both of the following:

(2)
A foreign jurisdiction that has enacted a
law or established procedures for issuance and enforcement of support orders
that are substantially similar to the procedures under sections 3115.01 to
3115.59 of the Revised Code, the
uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act, or the revised uniform
reciprocal enforcement of support act.

(V)
"Support enforcement agency" means a
public official or agency authorized to do any of the following:

(1)
Seek enforcement of support orders or
laws relating to the duty of support;

(W)
"Support order" means a spousal support order or child support order.

(X)
"Tribunal" means any trial
court of record of this state and when the context requires, a court,
administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity of any other state authorized
to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage.

(Y)
"Uniform reciprocal
enforcement of support act" means the act addressing interstate enforcement of
support orders adopted in 1950 and amended in 1952 and 1958 by the national
conference of commissioners on uniform state laws or any law substantially
similar to the act adopted by another state.